(2010). “Reality TV and the making of mobile publics: The case of Indian Idol.” In Marwan Kraidy and Katherine Sender (Eds.), Real Worlds: Global Perspectives on the politics of Reality television (New York: Routledge). [Won Best Essay Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2011-12].

(2010). From Bihar to Manhattan: Bollywood and the Transnational Indian Family. In Michael Curtin and Hemant Shah (Eds.), Re-orienting Global Communications (Urbana: University of Illinois Press).

(2008). “We’re Online, Not on the Streets: Indian Cinema, New Media, and Participatory Culture.” In Anandam Kavoori and Aswin Punathambekar (Eds.), Global Bollywood (New York: New York University Press).

(2007). “Between Rowdies and Rasikas: Rethinking Fan Activity in Indian Film Culture.” In Jonathan Gray, et al (Eds.), Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World (New York: New York University Press).

(2005). “MSSRF’s Information Village Research Project, Pondicherry.” In Balaji Parthasarathy and Kenneth Keniston (Eds.), Information and Communications Technologies for Development: A Comparative Analysis of Impacts and Costs from India.

“PCOs in Rural Tamilnadu: Yarns of a Different Kind from Tiruppur.” White paper written for the Telecommunications & Computer Networks Group, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Chennai, 2002.

Digital Academic Publications

“On the Ordinariness of Participatory Culture.” Symposium piece for special issue on Fan Activism, In Henry Jenkins and Sangita Shresthova (Eds.), Transformative Works and Cultures (vol. 10, 2012). http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/378

(2004-05). Dissertation Research Grant, Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

(2004). McCarty Pre-Dissertation Research Award, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Invited Lectures

Politics after YouTube: Satire, everyday life, and political culture in digital India. Lecture at the Department of Communication, Boston College, April 2015.

Becoming Bollywood: Industrial Identity in an Era of Reform. Presented at conference on India at Leisure, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, February 2015.

Politics after YouTube: Digital Media and the Reshaping of Indian Public Culture. Presentation at conference on Media Activism, Social Science Research Council, University of Pennsylvania, September 2014.

On murderous and other kinds of rage: Participatory culture and politics in an age of globalization. Global Studies Seminar series, Denison University, April 2012.

Diasporic media in an age of media capitals. Department of Culture and Communication, Drexel University, September 2011.

Television, Participatory Culture, and Politics: The case of Indian Idol. Scholarly lecture series at The International Institute and the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan, November 2009.

After Bollywood: Diasporic media in an age of media capitals. Symposium on New Agendas in Global Communications Research, Department of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas-Austin, October 2009.

Looking L.A., Talking Bombay: Bollywood and the new media world. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia, April 2009.

From IndiaFM.com to Radio Ceylon: new media and the making of Bollywood. Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, September 2008.

Conference Presentations

Satire and democratic politics in digital India. Lecture at conference on New Media and Democracy: Global Perspectives held at the University of Oregon, April 2015.

Symbolic Dimensions of Media Activism. Workshop presentation at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, May 2014.

Radio Ceylon in the Indian Ocean Arena: Towards a More Expansive Cultural Geography of Media. Presentation at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, May 2014.

On Murderous and Other Kinds of Rage: Mapping Cultural Politics in Digital India. Paper presented at the Media in Transition Conference, MIT, May 2013.

Television comedy, laughter, and the making of an Indian middle class. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, May 2012, Phoenix.

Participation first, politics next. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, May 2012, Phoenix.

Making room for television comedy: Television, the modern, and the everyday in 1980s India. Paper presented at annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2012, Boston.

Bollywood in the Indian Ocean Arena: An emergent geography of media power. Paper presented at ‘Beyond Normative Approaches: Media and everyday life in Africa’ conference at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, February 2012.

Moving beyond the ‘national’ in global media studies. Presentation at a pedagogy workshop (on teaching global media studies) at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, May 2011, Boston.

Indian Idol: Reality TV and the making of mobile publics. Paper presented at “Real Worlds: Global perspectives on politics of reality TV,” symposium at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, November 2008.

Brokering Bollywood: Film journalism, new media and the production of locality, paper presented at Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008. Organizer and panel chair.